LONDON, — The Euro 2000 Website received more than a billion visits during the championships, making it one of the most popular sites ever, the company running the site said on Monday.

US Internet services and Web hosting firm PSINet said that the daily record of 74 million hits was for Monday June 12, when Germany played Romania and England took on Portugal.

The www.euro2000.org site served the month-long championships which were hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands and won by France on July 3.

Next week official statistics should show if the Wimbledon tennis website www.wimbledon.org has broken any records.

It held the record last year for visits per minute – peaking at more than 400 000- but lost the crown later in the year when US officials posted details of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky hearings on the Net.

PSINet said that 74 percent of Euro 2000’s hits were on English-language sites, compared with 8.1 percent for German and 7.8 percent for French.

Reuters

Source: SOCOG